again, it's a big ridge of high pressure. we talked about this heat dome gradually descending air. it's very strong and when fronts try to move in, they are redirected off to the north, and we don't get very much cool air at all. we're going to watch this ridge gradually expand a little farther east in the coming days, so it's going to be getting warmer into the northeast. by friday in particular temperatures well into the 90s along a lot of that northeast corridor, and then that ridge will migrate back off towards the west into the early part of next week. gets a lot hotter in the west, and it will get cooler in the east. with this feature dominant across the country right now, there's not much weather to tell you about. a lot is being shunted up into canada right now. very quiet through much of the middle of the country. scattered showers in the southeast, so scattered storms in the southeast, parts of the west. severe weather primarily found here across the northern part of the plains. one more thing that we are watching, and that is tropical weather. things are beginning to hea